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zia86

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Registered: 2011-06-09

Posts: 5

PDF font viewed Evince different than actual PDF font?

The title says it all. I'm getting a very strange girly font (no offense, but the i's are dotted with hearts) being rendered for all the text on the PDF. Some PDFs that I view in Evince retain their original font. I have no idea why this is happening, and neither do I have this font on my computer. I am so definitely sure about that. Does anyone have ideas?

I'm using Gnome3 if that matters any.

Thanks in advance!

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: PDF font viewed Evince different than actual PDF font?

The font could be embedded within the PDF file.

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: PDF font viewed Evince different than actual PDF font?

Have you tried a different pdf viewer?  Gimp or inkscape can view pdf files or pages.  Epdfview is a lightweight, less feature-full alternative to Evince.

It might help to identify the font.  You probably have the poppler package installed.  If so, you can use 'pdffonts' to list the fonts used in the problem file.  The mupdf package includes 'pdfinfo-mupdf' that can also be used to list the fonts used in a pdf-file.